Howard Porter

Batman and The Flash have been investigating the mysterious button found in the Batcave, and things have gotten complicated. And who’s the man in the silver helmet, again? Your Major Spoilers review of The Flash #22 awaits!

The Internet had a mild blowup yesterday over the announcement that it is producing a new Snagglepuss series from Mark Russell and Howard Porter. In the upcoming series, Snagglepuss is a gay Southern gothic playwright taking on the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the 1950s. You are right, that does sound like all kinds of awesome.

Author’s Note: Random Access Memory is me looking back at the specific comics that shaped my life. Each month I go back in time – in five year intervals – to examine key comics that came out those months. (The idea is that after five years of monthly columns, I will have covered an entire lifetime – in this case, fifty years – of reading comics.) I also list all the comics I read that particular month. This will afford readers the opportunity to chastise me for not reading specific comics, and/or laugh at the horrible, horrible choices I made